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Founded in 1994 by Daniel Pipes, MEQ is the Middle East Forum’s journal intended for both scholars and the educated public. Policymakers, opinion-makers, academics, and journalists write for and read the Quarterly, which is known for exclusive interviews, in-depth historical articles, and book reviews on subjects ranging from archaeology to politics and on countries from Morocco to Iran.

Spring 2025 Volume 32: Number 2
Middle East Quarterly
Time to Take the Iranian Nuclear Bull by the Horns
By: Colin M. Winston
March 1, 2025
Middle East Quarterly
Biden’s Volte-Face on Israel: How Decades of Support Turned into Criticism
By: Daniel J Samet
March 1, 2025
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The Gaza War and the ‘Egypt-Is-Too-Big-to-Fail’ Argument
By: Nael Shama
March 1, 2025
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Misinformation Strategy and Media Bias in the Gaza War
By: Andrew Fox and Tatiana Glezer
March 1, 2025
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Book Reviews
March 1, 2025
Middle East Quarterly
Brief Reviews
March 1, 2025
Book Reviews
Winter 2025
Book Reviews
Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny
March 1, 2025
Book Reviews
On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice
March 1, 2025
Book Reviews
The October 7 War: Israel’s Battle for Security in Gaza
March 1, 2025
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Brief Reviews
Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East: The 1948 Arab War Against Israel and the Aftershocks of World War II
March 1, 2025
Brief Reviews
Oman’s Transformation After 1970
March 1, 2025
Brief Reviews
Possessed by the Right Hand: The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultures
March 1, 2025
Brief Reviews
Reform and Its Perils in Contemporary Islam: The Case of Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd
March 1, 2025
Book Reviews
Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East
March 1, 2025
Brief Reviews
Slavery, Abolition, and Islam: Debating Freedom in the Islamic Tradition
March 1, 2025
Book Reviews
The British Suicide: The U.K.'s Self-Inflicted Failure to Defeat Jihad for Two Decades
March 1, 2025
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Brief Reviews
December 9, 2024
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Turkey’s Demographic Engineering in Syria’s Afrin Region: A Closer Look
December 9, 2024
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Sirwan Kajjo
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Why the Palestinian Authority Cannot Allow Free Speech
December 9, 2024
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Ido Zelkovitz
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